Breaking deps deliberately

Michael Schwendt mschwendt at gmail.com
Thu May 14 09:47:03 UTC 2009


On Wed, 13 May 2009 23:08:39 +0100, Richard wrote:

> On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 03:27:42PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Someone could easily do the same thing in future.  If broken
> > dependencies are so unacceptable, then it should be added to the
> > packaging guidelines.
> 
> I added this as an agenda item for the FESCo meeting:
> 
> https://fedorahosted.org/fesco/ticket/147
>   "Meeting agenda item: No broken dependencies should be a packaging guideline"
> 

Am I reading your EPEL 5 libguestfs package changelog right? You've
created the same broken dep also for EPEL 5. And in response to this thread
you have released malfunctioning software instead?

 %changelog
+* Wed May 13 2009 Richard Jones <rjones at redhat.com> - 1.0.23-9
+- Remove the runtime requires on non-existant package.  It'll just fail
+  instead.

Btw, the F-10 update would have had a higher %release than the F-11
update (1.0.21-4.fc10 > 1.0.21-3.fc11).




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